Skills Development
            
            
              At Dell we believe our employees need to be given the
            
            
              opportunity to develop and become leaders – both in their
            
            
              communities and their workplace. Within the company
            
            
              this type of transformation takes place through focused
            
            
              and strategic skills development programs such as our
            
            
              comprehensive continuing education program which
            
            
              enables staff to further their education through degrees or
            
            
              diplomas and which is also used as a retention mechanism
            
            
              to assist with employment equity.
            
            
              Disabled Learnership Program
            
            
              Over the past seven years, more than 55 disabled learners
            
            
              have participated in our disabled learnership program, an
            
            
              initiative which enables us to recruit disabled employees
            
            
              who are then entitled to one year of Dell exposure.
            
            
              Winning Culture
            
            
              Our focus on internal inclusion is demonstrated by our
            
            
              Winning Culture Program which includes:
            
            
              1. Employee Volunteer Programs
            
            
              2. Linking Employees with socio-economic
            
            
              development beneficiaries
            
            
              3. Establishing and developing Dell
            
            
              as a great place to work
            
            
              Focus Areas
            
            
              In order to address some of
            
            
              the challenges faced by South
            
            
              African communities, we focus on
            
            
              transformation programs that address:
            
            
              • Internal inclusion
            
            
              • Connected communities
            
            
              • Business in SA
            
            
              Internal
            
            
              Inclusion
            
            
              
                Over 1300 hours of
              
            
            
              
                employee volunteering
              
            
            
              
                were completed this year.
              
            
            
              
                More than
              
            
            
              
                80% of
              
            
            
              
                employees
              
            
            
              
                received
              
            
            
              
                Professional
              
            
            
              
                Skills
              
            
            
              
                Development
              
            
            
              
                Training
              
            
            
              
                in FY13.
              
            
            
              
                Currently five
              
            
            
              
                employees are
              
            
            
              
                participating
              
            
            
              
                in an MBA
              
            
            
              
                program.